| Record ID: |
1478560 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
[25] leaves : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
Not available |
| More creator details: |
designed by Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon. |
| General note: |
An illustrated manuscript of the rhyming alphabet, "A was an Archer", in the version which appeared in A child's new play-thing published by Mrs. Mary Cooper in 1742. |
| General note: |
Earliest known Canadian picture book. |
| General note: |
The artist was the granddaughter of the eleventh Duke of Norfolk. After an unsuccessful lawsuit in 1856, the Howard-Gibbon family emigrated to Canada West. Miss Amelia, who had received art training in Paris and Stuttgart, conducted a school for little girls in a cottage in Sarnia, Ontario. According to a family tradition she gave voluntary art lessons in Toronto schools in 1873, before returning to England to claim an inheritance. |
| General note: |
The first Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon medal was awarded in 1971 by the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians to encourage distinguished book illustration in Canada. |
| General note: |
The initials are in red; the t.-p. is letttered in black, red, and ochre. |
| Access restriction: |
FOR USE IN OSBORNE COLLECTION ONLY. NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERLOAN. |
| Uniform title: |
A was an archer. |
